Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe The eccentric but loving family has long been a staple of American literature, movies, and television, and the Lovelaces of Hamilton, Massachusetts, seemed an exemplar of the species: the father, a minister who collected reptiles and showed Rosemary’s Baby to his stunned congregation; the […]
Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe Witnesses reported that at first, it sounded like snow sliding off a roof, a familiar sound on a mild January day in Lawrence, Massachusetts. But on this day–January 10, 1860–the sound was the precursor to one of the worst industrial accidents in the nation’s […]
Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe One of my favorite New England writers is John Hanson Mitchell, whose Ceremonial Time (1984) investigated the “deep history” of Scratch Flat, a one-square-mile piece of ground 35 miles northwest of Boston, from the Ice Age to the Digital Age. His new book, The […]
Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe Audio: Vermont author Castle Freeman Jr. reads from Go With Me.Listen now. Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe Every September, when the latest edition of The Old Farmer’s Almanac comes out, I turn immediately to the “Farmer’s Calendar,” 14 […]
Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe Franklin D. Roosevelt, it is said, counted as the three most brilliant Americans Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Thompson of Concord, New Hampshire. Benjamin who? Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe Well might one ask, and the most […]
The Classmates: Privilege, Chaos and the End of an Era (Hyperion, $23.95), by longtime Yankee contributor Geoffrey Douglas, is several books: a memoir of his years at St. Paul’s, the New Hampshire prep school that expelled him in 1961; a travelogue of the turbulent decades that followed; and a portrait of his former classmates, including […]
These two books have three things in common: Both are by former Yankee writers from Massachusetts, both are compulsively readable, and both are about quests. Suzanne Strempek Shea’s Sundays in America (Beacon Press, $24.95) begins with the flood of grief that accompanied the death of Pope John Paul II. “As a Catholic who in recent […]
